Ahmedabad lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | May 2, 2020, 08:33 IST

Artist draw corona awareness painting at Pallav Cross road in Ahmedabad

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
*22 people lost the battle and succumbed taking the total death toll to 236 in Gujarat.
*Ahmedabad continued to reel under the unabated attack of Coronavirus as it recorded 16 or 73% of the 22 deaths.
*Three more wards — Saraspur, Gomtipur and Asarwa — were added to the ‘red zone’ in Ahmedabad, taking the total of such wards to nine. Khadia, Jamalpur, Danilimda, Behrampura, Shahpur and Dariapur were earlier classified as red zones.
*As the lockdown got extended second time, the analysis of earlier two phases of lockdowns for Gujarat reveal that compared to lockdown 1 (March 25 to April 15), lockdown 2 (April 15 to May 3) recorded multiplication of cases by 5.7 times for the data available till April 30. Similar comparison for pre-lockdown to lockdown period shows cases rising 19 times.
*Gujarat recorded 326 cases in 24 hours ending 5 pm on Friday. The cases included 267 from Ahmedabad, 26 from Surat, 19 from Vadodara, 6 from Mahisagar and 3 from Panchmahal. Banaskantha, Botad, Gandhinagar, Kutch and Patan recorded one each.